Chocolate Strawberry Fizz: Valentine’s Day Drink

I’ve partnered once again with Here Today to bring you the latest holiday bargains from my favorite St. Louis discount store. They challenged me to create a special Valentine cocktail using awesome deals from their Cheers department! They always have a good selection of wine and spirits, and right now they’re featuring deals on favored bourbons and vodkas! The hardest part? Deciding what to bring home!

I scooped up a cart full of ingredients, without any sort of recipe in mind. I’ve never invented a drink before, so grabbed a few core ingredients: bourbon, rum and champagne. I also picked up a half dozen flavors of Vess soda, bottled lemonade and frozen fruit–strawberries and pineapple! The fruit was 99 cents a bag, so I got extra for a round of smoothies. The flavored vodkas, from Oddka were just $4.98 had had delightfully strange flavors like Apple Pie, Carmel Popcorn and Wasabi! I might have to try some of those later. The Woodstock bourbons and Black Cove Spiced rum were just $7.98.

My hubs and I gathered around the blender and got to work on the most amazing Valentine drink! Don’t worry, we made a few blenders full to make sure it was perfect before publishing this recipe. (wink, wink)

Chocolate Strawberry Fizz

Makes 2 Generous Servings

1/2 Woodstock Chocolate Bourbon

1 Cup (or 4 oz) Frozen Strawberries

1/2 Strawberry Vess

1/2 Sugar

1 Cup Ice

First place the sugar in your blender and grind for 20-30 seconds. This creates super fine sugar which will dissolve quicker. Then add strawberries, bourbon and ice. Blend until smooth. Add strawberry soda and blend at a lower speed to mix.

Sugar Rim

Add a red sugar rim for an even more festive drink! Just dye sugar pink by adding several drops of red food coloring to a quarter cup of sugar in a sandwich bag. Mix thoroughly by shaking the bag or squishing with your fingers! Pour the sugar in to a bowl and dampen your glass rim, then dip!

I also added a garnish of fresh strawberries and shaved chocolate. You know, just to be festive.

More from Here Today

Of course I found much more at Here Today for Valentine’s Day!

I found these cute Valentine champagne flutes with matching votives for just $7.99! Candles were just a dollar more and when paired with a bottle of my favorite Moscato champagne (just $3.98) you have Valentine’s covered! Now all you need to do is find a baby sitter!

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